Activity 1: Conflict Resolution: Government Level

• When Governments are confronted with conflict from within their own nation they must have a means of working through the conflict.
• In Canada, most organizations use the same model as in the above activity but they may have larger and more complex issues to mediate and work through.
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• Why are the following issues controversial? How does a social organization, such as the government, deal with these types of conflicts?
  • enabling women to play a role in economic and political affairs outside of the family
  • preserving the family farm by giving farmers a fair price for their produce
  • giving the Aboriginal Peoples control over their economic, political, and legal affairs
  • setting aside one day per week as a day of rest
  • protecting the rights of minorities, however unpopular, to live their lives according to their consciences
  • protecting the rights of workers to form unions and withdraw their labour in a strike
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